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Accessibility is Not an Afterthought

Building accessible components from scratch requires extensive WAI-ARIA implementation, keyboard navigation scripting, and thorough screen reader testing. This is where headless UI libraries save the day.

Why Choose Headless Components?

Radix UI provides primitive components that have zero styled-in opinions. They handle the complex structural semantics, focus rings, and screen-reader accessibility tags, allowing you to style the wrapper with absolute visual control.

For instance, an accessible Dialog modal is simple to build with Radix Dialog primitives:

import * as Dialog from '@radix-ui/react-dialog';

export const Modal = () => (
  <Dialog.Root>
    <Dialog.Trigger className="btn">Open Modal</Dialog.Trigger>
    <Dialog.Portal>
      <Dialog.Overlay className="overlay" />
      <Dialog.Content className="modal-content">
        <Dialog.Title>Accessible Dialog</Dialog.Title>
        <Dialog.Close>Close</Dialog.Close>
      </Dialog.Content&

Designing Accessible Web Applications with Radix UI

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